<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The goal of this research is to explore sentence structures expressed by parts of speech. Due to a small amount of data, a problem of <italic>sparse</italic> data has arisen, which was solved by recording the annotated sentences and considering a “framework” of a sentence made up from a verb and a noun, which was conditionally called a code. The code of a sentence is created by changing each word of a sentence by a symbol (letter or number) that <italic>encodes</italic> one or other property of that word as a constituent of the sentence. Zipf’s law describes sentences, encoded like that, rather well. If we ‘learn’ well to identify and analyze (annotate, translate, etc.) sentences of the simplest structure, we can automatically process quite a large part of text sentences. It is possible to identify at least 17% of sentences consisting of the simplest structure.</p></abstract>

The goal of this research is to explore sentence structures expressed by parts of speech. Due to a small amount of data, a problem of sparse data has arisen, which was solved by recording the annotated sentences and considering a “framework” of a sentence made up from a verb and a noun, which was conditionally called a code. The code of a sentence is created by changing each word of a sentence by a symbol (letter or number) that encodes one or other property of that word as a constituent of the sentence. Zipf’s law describes sentences, encoded like that, rather well. If we ‘learn’ well to identify and analyze (annotate, translate, etc.) sentences of the simplest structure, we can automatically process quite a large part of text sentences. It is possible to identify at least 17% of sentences consisting of the simplest structure.

Application of Statistical Methods in the Analysis of Sentence Structure

Šiauliai University, Faculty of Technology, Physical and Biomedical Sciences, Vilniaus st. 141, Šiauliai, LT-76353,

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The goal of this research is to explore sentence structures expressed by parts of speech. Due to a small amount of data, a problem of sparse data has arisen,...

Application of Statistical Methods in the Analysis of Sentence Structure

Published Online: Nov 19, 2016

Page range: 10 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/plua-2016-0008

Keywords
sentence structure, Zipf’s law, coding

© 2016 Karolina Piaseckiene, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Application of Statistical Methods in the Analysis of Sentence Structure

Published Online: Nov 19, 2016

Page range: 10 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/plua-2016-0008

Keywordssentence structure, Zipf’s law, coding

© 2016 Karolina Piaseckiene, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
sentence structure, Zipf’s law, coding